9 Warm Weather DIY Hair and Skin Care Recipes

Be a natural beauty this spring/summer by whipping up these homemade beauty products

While it's fun to try out the latest, buzzed-about beauty products, there's something really charming (and affordable) about cooking up your own beauty recipes. But before you get intimidated, know that you don't have to be Julia Child to give yourself a farmer's market facial. In fact, some of these recipes only require a single ingredient -- like raspberries, which make a great after-sun face mask -- pretty amazing considering the laundry list of un-pronounceable ingredients we're used to seeing in our beauty products.

And with all the beauty joys that sunnier days bring, like wavy locks and less makeup, also come the woes of swimming pool hair and sunburned noses. Which is why we got DIY beauty product recipes from Janice Cox, author of "Natural Beauty for All Seasons", to help cure those issues, plus warm weather herbal remedies designed by sustainable gardener Melinda Joy Miller and the owner of the Steam Salon in Los Angeles, Calif., Carla Gentile Day. Use their beauty tips to learn how to take things like sage from your herb garden (see, you can use it for something other than spicing up pasta) and make beauty products like a hair remedy out of it, or a must-be-eaten-today melon that you picked up from the market and turn it into a face mask.

Making homemade beauty recipes is really just about mixing nature's best offerings with stuff that you have in your pantry and medicine cabinet to create beauty products that will make you feel like a natural beauty. The possibilities are endless for what beauty products you can create, so use these recipes as a starting point, and as you begin to think outside the beauty aisle, you'll soon be brimming with creative ideas for what to do with that too-ripe avocado …